Unofficially...the SR-71 has maintained level flight at over 90,000 ft. Unofficially the pilot (can't remember his name) said he had to outrun a Soviet SAM and saw Mach numbers that frightened him, and said the number was well above the 'limit'.
@GoodBadUglyest ..If you need a name google Major Brian Shul, he holds the record for the speedous flight in a SR71, out turning missiles launch at his A/C over Libya, during high speed acceleration, the Habu had to climb, but just enough not to exceed 4-7 degrees or the A/C may enter a inverted flat spin on its back.....THX ....
@GoodBadUglyest ..He recorded Mach 3.50 during his climbing excel manuver..read the Major's recollection of this flight over Libya..google;;[ major brian shul "i loved that jet" maggie's farm] this makes for some very interesting reading...Good Luck
@SisuM62 It was a interceptor and was used in photo reconnaissance role as well. It flew recon flights over Israel and Iran. It was designed to intercept the USAF Valkyrie which ironically got cancelled. I was just making the point that the SR-71 wasn't to fast to catch or shoot down. it can be tracked and it can be seen coming so as long as you can get something up there it can be shot down.
@mystro1971 Fucking idiot. The SR71 was used as a reconnaissance aircraft, not as a fighter! And I dont think you would ever hear the engines of the SR71 as it flew at around 85000 feet! And no the X Men dont fucking have one.
This video inspired me to change my profile picture. I saw the SR many times when I lived in Okinawa and managed to photograph it one time at dusk with the afterburners on. By the way, a SR pilot told me one time that the only thing that could fly faster was the Space Shuttle.
In the states we may not make the best automobiles... though, I think it's safe to say that we make some of the best aircraft. The McLaren F1 of the air? If I do say so myself....
@zippythewonderslugoh Actually theres been a report a while back about how a bunch of communist heard of one coming and shot the luckiest missle ever and took it down
@zippythewonderslugoh Max speed of the SR-71 was Mach 3.3. Max Speed of the fastest Soviet interceptor the Mig-25 'Foxbat' was Mach 3.2. They both had similar ceilings of 80,000 feet plus. Lastly the air to air missiles the Mig-25 carried had a top speed of Mach 4.5.
@zippythewonderslugoh not true! some SAM can reach speeds over mach 4. Besides the fact that at that time it did not exist and it was not sposed to be in U.S.S.R. air space!!!
I'm pissed because all these kids know about this plane thanks to Black Ops and I talk about it and they say "dude your so lame for talkin about Call of Duty" and I say "but I already know about it. I knew so many facts about this before they even made the game!" so frustrating
hate to say it, but this was America at it's peak. Conceived, developed and built this thing without the aide of sophisticated computer programs but brilliance of the mind and craftsmanship of the hands. cannot forget those who built this thing out of forms. those were metal workers, man. the depression and WWII made America lean and strong.
@TheFALLONATER Impossible, as the A-12 was retired in the late 60's and the YF-12 never entered service, though technically NASA used one for a while.
SR71 was rendered obsolete by mig 31. Both planes are record planes: mig 25 holds height record (i think 36600 meters), sr 71 probably holds speed record.
Great plane - but why do so many people put music on their video that only they like? Is this about the plane or the music? I clicked on SR-71 not some freakinn French electro from the 70's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The SR-71 was an awsome aircraft that still has many classified statistics that won't be beaten any time soon. Why spoil it with crappy music that was out of date by 1980???
i saw one of these do a low pass before, set off every car alarm in the parking lot, there were car owners who didnt even know they had car alarms, went off. and they even set off the baby alarms and everyone knows thats hard to turn off.
@MrByronpendleton; I have not heard this song; Oxygene, in probably 30-years, but I recognized it, and remembered its name immediately upon hearing it, played as the background music for; "Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Must See Clips", posted by; 666nocturnal666. Now, I will have to find my old 33.3 LP vinyl album, and play it over and over again, just as I did in 1978, when I first heard it, and then rushed out purchased it.
@Mr01012006 Each engine produces 32,500lbs (14,742 kgs) of static thrust. There is a formula to convert thrust to horsepower but you can be rest assured that the SR-71 is more powerful than a Golf GTI
@ciac47 Little generous in your speed estimate, but a fabulous vehicle just to be around. Spent 25 years connected with program. Worked other neat programs but, without a doubt, this was my favorite!
here is a fun fact: on the ground, the Blackbird would actually leak fuel. They usually had to get it off the ground, go supersonic, and then refuel in mid-air for missions.
@averagedude1986 You are exactly right. The "skin" of the plane would tighten up at high speed with all that heat, so it was loose and a bit leaky on the ground! Also, I understand that the pilots wore kind of space suit looking outfits, and further, you were NEVER to touch the windshield once underway because of the intense heat. Such a cool plane, my dad made a meticulous Estes model rocket of this!
Its just amazing that this craft was built in the '60s! It was SO ahead of its time. Now if they could build this then, can you imagine what they have now?
it looks so sexy and syfi it looks unreal but it is one of the best airplanes ever built wait it is the best airplane ever built(p51 mustang like right around there to) just love it favorite airplane of all time
@ pipercub so the proof is in the pudding but as per usual we only get a scoop at a time. Another very interesting fact, about italian scientist Andrea Rossi and his E-Cat which he discloses has received a contract with an american company starting with an "N." The energy catalyzer or E-cat is for lack of a better term a cold fusion reactor. As we know in the 50's and 60's the USAF did test flights of "atom powered" nuclear bombers... But there were problems with radiation exposure. Cold fusi
@piperclub who cares if they were eliminated and dismantled. If you knew that there is new and improved air/spacecrafts in use and in production right now you wouldn't. How long after the Blackbird was designed and conceived did you know about it... SR-71B first flight in 64. introduced in 1966. Retired in 98. It would be foolish to retire a plane without the replacement at least in the works. Same goes for NASA's shuttle program. "flying bricks" are out of style. Not
@elkranch ..May thru Nov 2007 Marine Corps. Logist Base Barstow,CA the Defense Log. Ag. & A.F. Material Com. ordered the disposal of all existing materials associated with Senior Crown over 2 million pounds of related A-12 & SR-71 were demilled with ordered witnessed burial...the last NASA SR-71 went to the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo MI shipped by truck in 2003??what a waste to destroy all that Habu material,14 J58 engine 840+ tires etc...Peace
there is only ONE manned aircraft if you want to call it that that is faster than the BIRB and that is the space shuttle.If we believe everything the DD puts out about the BirB we are in a world of hurt. I will bet my retirement check she still is flying ou just don't hear about it, their have been some modifications to it to enhance speed and recon.Iwould put her up against any thing that flies from any country.
Keep thinking the SR-71 is through it does thing the Predaor can't do..and yes there is mach 5 drone and call it a gut feeling or maybe more but I think NK will be the first to find out I do agree thank you Kelly Johnson for designing such a bird. Oh would Russia back NK in a war. Not in my life time, China Maybe
Keep thinking the SR-71 is through it does thing the Predaor can't do..and yes there is mach 5 drone and call it a gut feeling or maybe more but I think NK will be the first to find out I do agree thank you Kelly Johnson for designing such a bird
3/19/70 I was just going off and we got a red ball. We hit the air in 2 f-4s as we hit mach 2 the bird pass us likw we were parked. Ground radar had picked up something( we were never told), but our orders we to bring it nout of the sky, I saw it on my screen but we could overtake it and niether could the bird and he was at full afterburn. Til I die I will always wonder what we were chasing. My sons it is the truth.
I would rather not see an invisiable nuke. They have said Oh the bird is retired, anyone want to make a bet on that. It still flies, but ask anyone in the defence depatment and they will lie like hell and say we have no use for it with out satalittes, I know withour going into details it fies. God I wish I could say the things that I know about the bird the way my luck runs the DD would be beating on my door I will say this Mach 3 is awalk it the park for the bird.
This puppy still rocks. Built in the late sixties and can still out strip mach 3 with a radar profile that would match today's B1 or B2 or the fighter F-117. This was the bird that propelled the USSR to develop an anti air missile to catch up to this plane. What a provocation to start a cold war! I mean I would be afraid.
This puppy still rocks. Built in the late sixties and can still out strip mach 3 with a radar profile that would match today's B1 or B2 or the fighter F-117.
Pretty damn cool for 1960s technology. Read the excellent book "Sled Driver" if you can find a copy (very rare). I've taken many photos of the 71 at the National Air and Space Museum at Dulles, Va. .
I can't remeber as it has been so long ago but we did have a Recon was similar to the Bird". and yes had and a couple of other countries have been trying to for years to construct a missle that will catch the bird, but at last count there just as bad as we are in finding enough money to design something that will even come close the catching it. So far advanced for it time. Know or have a real good idea how fast but we will leave that alone.
@sixnightsaweek I think you are referring to to the U2, It was a high flying snooper and at the time, or at its onset, The USSR had no missile that could reach it. Technology caught up to the U2 and Fancis Gary Powers was shot down.
awsome plaine thumbs up :D
perfektolisem 58 minutes ago
LOOK UP THE ARTICLE ON THIS FROM A FEW YEARS AGO. COAST TO COAST IN 68 MINUETS!
The1979814 21 hours ago
BLACK OPS FTW!
mAdBuMpIn 1 day ago
It's still number 1.
isukaman 4 days ago
Unofficially...the SR-71 has maintained level flight at over 90,000 ft. Unofficially the pilot (can't remember his name) said he had to outrun a Soviet SAM and saw Mach numbers that frightened him, and said the number was well above the 'limit'.
GoodBadUglyest 4 days ago
@GoodBadUglyest ..If you need a name google Major Brian Shul, he holds the record for the speedous flight in a SR71, out turning missiles launch at his A/C over Libya, during high speed acceleration, the Habu had to climb, but just enough not to exceed 4-7 degrees or the A/C may enter a inverted flat spin on its back.....THX ....
pipercub123456 4 days ago
@pipercub123456 Shul...Yeah, that's it. Did he ever say how fast he had it up to?
GoodBadUglyest 3 days ago
@GoodBadUglyest ..He recorded Mach 3.50 during his climbing excel manuver..read the Major's recollection of this flight over Libya..google;;[ major brian shul "i loved that jet" maggie's farm] this makes for some very interesting reading...Good Luck
pipercub123456 3 days ago 7
SR71 vs Mig25
SR71 had a longer range
Mig25 was an actual fighter
SisuM62 5 days ago
@SisuM62 It was a interceptor and was used in photo reconnaissance role as well. It flew recon flights over Israel and Iran. It was designed to intercept the USAF Valkyrie which ironically got cancelled. I was just making the point that the SR-71 wasn't to fast to catch or shoot down. it can be tracked and it can be seen coming so as long as you can get something up there it can be shot down.
Longs81 5 days ago
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Fredrikgaard 6 days ago
What is the background music?
MuzzEdBurb 6 days ago
@MuzzEdBurb Jean Michel Jarre, Oxygen part IV.
Fredrikgaard 6 days ago
@MuzzEdBurb Jean Michel Jarre --song is called Oxygene
24435155 1 day ago
370 ppl are former kgb
RedTornado279 6 days ago
someone's ripping off Jean Michel Jarre...
dvamateur 6 days ago
shame abt the music....
iloveXH558 1 week ago
on the battlefield...if you heard the engines of the sr71 blackbird,you were already dead!!!!!
mystro1971 1 week ago
@mystro1971 Fucking idiot. The SR71 was used as a reconnaissance aircraft, not as a fighter! And I dont think you would ever hear the engines of the SR71 as it flew at around 85000 feet! And no the X Men dont fucking have one.
FruityLoopsDubstep 1 week ago
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darthfatman 6 days ago
@FruityLoopsDubstep What? X-men dont have one? But I saw it on the TV!!! Good comment, FruityLoops.. hehehe...
monkeetime 6 days ago
@mystro1971
the noise is behind it when it shits and gets.loudest A/C I was around.
danls286 1 week ago
nice use of Oxygene IV :)
Nikkodemis 1 week ago
Beautiful.
evildeanie 1 week ago
now imagine if they put Pratt and Whittney F135 engines in these....
gunguy702 1 week ago
Blackbird, a superior aircraft never taken down! Black, mysterious, fast and invisible power!
amasonga 1 week ago
looks like a penis in the sky...
RCplanescarsetc 2 weeks ago
thats why they name the cbr1100xx super blackbird
skourvoulianaki 2 weeks ago
a classic
Fastelth999 2 weeks ago
This video inspired me to change my profile picture. I saw the SR many times when I lived in Okinawa and managed to photograph it one time at dusk with the afterburners on. By the way, a SR pilot told me one time that the only thing that could fly faster was the Space Shuttle.
D29418 2 weeks ago
Hey Gene Michael Jarre music is so creepy classic.
tnasburypl 2 weeks ago
Kelly Johnson was a pioneer.
Redman07Texas 2 weeks ago
It looks futuristic, even in 2012, and they were designing it in the early 1960s. Makes you wonder what they have now....
Forest9924 2 weeks ago
In the states we may not make the best automobiles... though, I think it's safe to say that we make some of the best aircraft. The McLaren F1 of the air? If I do say so myself....
admx94 2 weeks ago
Amazing technology for it's time. Makes you wonder what they're working on almost five decades later
zkenzo 2 weeks ago
Love the creepy, 80's ass, Arthur C. Clark music. Good touch.
jhinzino 2 weeks ago
I wish I could have seen this in action! :)
weggieman88 2 weeks ago
@weggieman88 It was a spy plane.
Even the enemy didn't see it.
KKKn50cal 2 weeks ago
ХУЙНЯ
serpimolotrus 2 weeks ago
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pipercub123456 2 weeks ago
Theres NO WAY the SR71 would do a low fast past with full afterburners. Because everybody would go def.......
NAVYBA5 2 weeks ago
@NAVYBA5
It has..2 people fainted..it wasn't on purpose
Incident with low lying fog in Burbank back in the 80's.
weggieman88 2 weeks ago
Can't put guns on it because it runs into the bullets =AWESOME!
Jetrosr 2 weeks ago
@bopsmaster he was talking about a air breathing jet. The x15 was rocket powered.
metallicaman5150 2 weeks ago
It was some what stealth. The paint was radar absorbing. And the tail fins tilted in. It was the beginning of stealth.
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pipercub123456 2 weeks ago
Doesn't have to be stealth. It flew so high and so fast missles couldn't catch it
zippythewonderslugoh 3 weeks ago 23
@zippythewonderslugoh Actually theres been a report a while back about how a bunch of communist heard of one coming and shot the luckiest missle ever and took it down
VxDeltaForce1xV 1 week ago
@VxDeltaForce1xV You can't hear them coming.
jsha 1 week ago
@jsha they saw it taking off and informed insurgents anyways if you dont belive me i think theres some pictures of it on google
VxDeltaForce1xV 1 week ago
We do not use the SR any more.Retired in late 80's or early 90's.
danls286 1 week ago
@zippythewonderslugoh Max speed of the SR-71 was Mach 3.3. Max Speed of the fastest Soviet interceptor the Mig-25 'Foxbat' was Mach 3.2. They both had similar ceilings of 80,000 feet plus. Lastly the air to air missiles the Mig-25 carried had a top speed of Mach 4.5.
Longs81 5 days ago
@zippythewonderslugoh not true! some SAM can reach speeds over mach 4. Besides the fact that at that time it did not exist and it was not sposed to be in U.S.S.R. air space!!!
majorpeck 1 day ago
is it stealth?
paulcadaver 3 weeks ago
x-men unite
curseknight5 3 weeks ago
Truly amazing craft. Way ahead of it's time. Go Skunkworks!!!!
holtzendorff 3 weeks ago
I got a little sample of this masterpiece Blackbird from mach3ti.com
diamondwauction 3 weeks ago
Wheres area 51?
birdwatcherlj 3 weeks ago
@birdwatcherlj Nevada
Seanjon916 3 weeks ago
This vid's probably like 30 years old, isn't it? They don't fly those things anymore
spookypunky 3 weeks ago
I remember me and my Dad making a wooden replica that hung from the ceiling.
5HREDD3R 3 weeks ago
@5HREDD3R thats really sweet awww lol
sweetness00peace 3 weeks ago
awesome bird tht is i love it
bsamuelrapula 3 weeks ago
Dislike is a ninja thumbs up...
enyskept 3 weeks ago
@ FedsUserName nerd
Xxconvict01xX 3 weeks ago
Looks like Chuck Norris got an 8 Kill Streak
FedsUserName 3 weeks ago
Alien technology at its finest
ZachKsYou 3 weeks ago
Music: Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
etbadaboum 3 weeks ago
still the most beautiful military aircraft ever
xgg249 3 weeks ago
It's amazing that something as bulky looking as the SR71 can go as high and as fast as it can.
theothertylaxguy 3 weeks ago
I'm pissed because all these kids know about this plane thanks to Black Ops and I talk about it and they say "dude your so lame for talkin about Call of Duty" and I say "but I already know about it. I knew so many facts about this before they even made the game!" so frustrating
chrisvonderlinn 4 weeks ago
i dont know how that noise is stealthy
xVeRSeii 4 weeks ago
@xVeRSeii The idea is that the SR71 flies higher than most aricraft, and faster than almost all aircraft.
FrodoTheDog777 3 weeks ago
@FrodoTheDog777 full spec of the 'sled' is still classified! hoo-rah!!
GrayStroke01 3 weeks ago
how long did it fly for? because the SR-71 blackbirds fuel takes leak until the body expands and seals the cracks.
redgifford1717 4 weeks ago
gta 4 music XD
iThEcAzZ 4 weeks ago
Altitude record went bye-bye.
-Tony Stark
rasey077 4 weeks ago
I want to see it at Mach 2
txiong82 1 month ago
@txiong82 c'mon it flies faster than mach 3
Redman07Texas 2 weeks ago
Amazing! And from technology that is almost 50 years old!!
zkenzo 1 month ago
hate to say it, but this was America at it's peak. Conceived, developed and built this thing without the aide of sophisticated computer programs but brilliance of the mind and craftsmanship of the hands. cannot forget those who built this thing out of forms. those were metal workers, man. the depression and WWII made America lean and strong.
Mockingbird5150 1 month ago
@Mockingbird5150 don't hate to say it, you are spot on
Redman07Texas 2 weeks ago
Why did they have to stop using this fine bird?
NVdelta40 1 month ago
@NVdelta40 It was made in the 60's!
MrJohnnyhye 1 month ago
The RAM jet. The faster you go, the more power you get.
MyOvenIsRacist 1 month ago
The next plane is the scramjet with carbon body to handle the heat. Mach 12
U3X6785 1 month ago
Skunkworks!!!!
pfc82563 1 month ago
What i found pretty funny about this plane is it doesn't have any super sophisticated anti missile system... It just outruns the missiles lol.
soaponaroapDG 1 month ago
What is the name of the music piece?
RonaldArif 1 month ago
One of the greatest american aviation achievements.
vampov 1 month ago
that could of been a yf-12 or a-12 which are mistaken for sr-71's a lot but still all are very rare to see
TheFALLONATER 1 month ago
@TheFALLONATER Impossible, as the A-12 was retired in the late 60's and the YF-12 never entered service, though technically NASA used one for a while.
CessnaPilot4Fun 1 month ago
give my potato back!
i need to film my wifes assss
AQgod812 1 month ago
SR-71 INBOUND
Mr1970USMC 1 month ago
I know for a fact that the SR-71 flew over Washington state and into British Columbia briefly in 1996.
pittsky 1 month ago
SR71 was rendered obsolete by mig 31. Both planes are record planes: mig 25 holds height record (i think 36600 meters), sr 71 probably holds speed record.
Ma3gau 1 month ago
@Ma3gau and for the highest altitude plane was the X-15 at 355,000ft. or 109,000 meters
BOpsMaster 1 month ago
Great plane - but why do so many people put music on their video that only they like? Is this about the plane or the music? I clicked on SR-71 not some freakinn French electro from the 70's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The SR-71 was an awsome aircraft that still has many classified statistics that won't be beaten any time soon. Why spoil it with crappy music that was out of date by 1980???
MrDunkol 1 month ago
Coolest looking plane of all time !
irelandbloke 1 month ago
new york to la?? be there in 20
jonnieos 1 month ago
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@jonnieos
"new york to la?? be there in 20"
LOL! That cracked me up.
pittsky 1 month ago
i have seen this in its hangar 24hr armed guards fuel all ova the place ha ha just awsome
XxSHADOWMODSxX 1 month ago
so 361 of the Commies do no't like this LOL
zeak62 1 month ago
this was 50 years ago.imagine what they have now.
haroon4567 1 month ago
I want one, where can I get one? Awesome jet.
PeterSilseth 1 month ago
RIP headphone users
mojoeyFTW 1 month ago
@mojoeyFTW ROFL
TJD24tamebandkk 1 month ago
i saw one of these do a low pass before, set off every car alarm in the parking lot, there were car owners who didnt even know they had car alarms, went off. and they even set off the baby alarms and everyone knows thats hard to turn off.
RebelDawg0291 1 month ago
@MrByronpendleton; I have not heard this song; Oxygene, in probably 30-years, but I recognized it, and remembered its name immediately upon hearing it, played as the background music for; "Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Must See Clips", posted by; 666nocturnal666. Now, I will have to find my old 33.3 LP vinyl album, and play it over and over again, just as I did in 1978, when I first heard it, and then rushed out purchased it.
OrionM43 1 month ago
Nothing can , has , or ever will compare to the SR-71 , in my opinion , it IS THE most advanced plane/weapon ever made.
xUndertakerx1 1 month ago
@xUndertakerx1 ,i'll second that,look at what was done in the 50's and 60's! the space programme, SR71,,concorde etc.technology is going backwards
bigchiefmingingbolok 1 month ago
If I was president... THAT would be my airforce 1.
thundershots99 1 month ago 70
@thundershots99
Except there's absolutely no room for passengers in there...
Rofocowboy84 4 weeks ago
@Rofocowboy84 I'm the president, there will be a third seat... :)
thundershots99 4 weeks ago
@thundershots99 doesnt work that way but i know what your saying. i def agree.
allrightsreserved88 3 weeks ago
missle evasion tactic= full throttle lol
krazor8 1 month ago 2
@krazor8 No missile could ever catch up with it.
itsmegp46 1 month ago
what is the horsepower on this thing....
Mr01012006 1 month ago
@Mr01012006 Each engine produces 32,500lbs (14,742 kgs) of static thrust. There is a formula to convert thrust to horsepower but you can be rest assured that the SR-71 is more powerful than a Golf GTI
TJD24tamebandkk 1 month ago
American military is number one.
eLLriDe420 1 month ago
MACH 4.5....GREAT...!!!
ciac47 1 month ago
@ciac47 Little generous in your speed estimate, but a fabulous vehicle just to be around. Spent 25 years connected with program. Worked other neat programs but, without a doubt, this was my favorite!
jigdogmike 1 month ago
@jigdogmike that speed is not very generous at all my great uncle helped develope them and fly them
truckerjay1 4 weeks ago
Best airplane ever ever built. If God wanted to fly it would be on this airplane.
juancatfish1 1 month ago
Iran never would have brought that down.
zizwop 1 month ago
What is the name of the music? I know it is very famous but I don't know it's name..
dadardad 1 month ago
WERE WAS THIS
TheBriggsy203 1 month ago
I you now this song from GAT VI
watch?v=5DDEl7JnWvo
lukey2603 1 month ago
@lukey2603 music in the background is jean michel jarre - oxygene part 4
21boxhead 1 month ago
i'll take mine in red thank you with a years supply of fuel.lol
MrVinny53 1 month ago
I want an rc jet of sr-71blackbird.
khristian49 1 month ago
Report weight and power this plane remains very handy
choquetrenard 1 month ago
its skin didnt tighten up..it expanded. if it tightened it'd leak even more.
Milkmaidpaladin 1 month ago
here is a fun fact: on the ground, the Blackbird would actually leak fuel. They usually had to get it off the ground, go supersonic, and then refuel in mid-air for missions.
averagedude1986 1 month ago
@averagedude1986 You are exactly right. The "skin" of the plane would tighten up at high speed with all that heat, so it was loose and a bit leaky on the ground! Also, I understand that the pilots wore kind of space suit looking outfits, and further, you were NEVER to touch the windshield once underway because of the intense heat. Such a cool plane, my dad made a meticulous Estes model rocket of this!
ToyKingWonder 1 month ago
groovy music
ncfatcyclist 1 month ago 17
@ncfatcyclist jean michel jarre - oxygene part 4
21boxhead 1 month ago
@ncfatcyclist Oxygene IV by Jean Michel Jarre.
aliensporebomb 1 month ago in playlist jet takeoffs n low pass
@ncfatcyclist What is the name of this music piece?
RonaldArif 1 month ago
@ncfatcyclist Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene
sevenlemon 1 month ago
@ncfatcyclist its Jean Michel Jarre!
flexairz 1 month ago
Its just amazing that this craft was built in the '60s! It was SO ahead of its time. Now if they could build this then, can you imagine what they have now?
09jackstraw 1 month ago
@09jackstraw If you want to be further blown away, check out a B-70 sometime, and realize they started working on that thing in the 50s!!!!
ToyKingWonder 1 month ago
it looks so sexy and syfi it looks unreal but it is one of the best airplanes ever built wait it is the best airplane ever built(p51 mustang like right around there to) just love it favorite airplane of all time
lemonkids3 1 month ago
Such a wonderful and sleek looking Jet. Crazy looking at the thing knowing it goes to inner space and nearly the speed of sound. Amazing.
DestroySteve 1 month ago
@DestroySteve NEARLY the speed of sound?? It goes 3 times the speed of sound.
emperorgrant 1 month ago
80s music went perfect with it.
grimm61111 1 month ago
thats what crashed at Roswell New Mexico in 1947!
zambot3 1 month ago
that is the mclaren f1 of jets. still sexy.
hotneo7 1 month ago
Didn't need the music, the scream of the engines is music enough. Love that plane!!
1bad302 1 month ago
Not bad for old tech.....you know they(we)? have anti-gravity craft....uno ufo.
doowaditti 1 month ago
Lol, I think the music is pretty appropriate for the age this masterpiece flew.
swoodard4 1 month ago
gay music !!!!
grenzdebiler1 1 month ago
And the Russians, Cubans and Chinese never saw one of these this close...
tombeecher 1 month ago
funny how this thing can go around the world in a couple hours
unmi1231 1 month ago
song reminded me of arcades :)
1Filmproducer 1 month ago
@ pipercub so the proof is in the pudding but as per usual we only get a scoop at a time. Another very interesting fact, about italian scientist Andrea Rossi and his E-Cat which he discloses has received a contract with an american company starting with an "N." The energy catalyzer or E-cat is for lack of a better term a cold fusion reactor. As we know in the 50's and 60's the USAF did test flights of "atom powered" nuclear bombers... But there were problems with radiation exposure. Cold fusi
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pipercub123456 1 month ago
My dream come true, the black ops kids have ran to another game, and the comments are once again ruled by aviation enthusiasts!
TensionAirsoft 1 month ago
Too bad about the crappy music detracting from this video.
mrjahgreen 1 month ago
@pipercub Being an aviation enthusiast I would assume you have heard of the scramjet engines, no?
TheA1l2e34x 1 month ago
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pipercub123456 1 month ago
@piperclub who cares if they were eliminated and dismantled. If you knew that there is new and improved air/spacecrafts in use and in production right now you wouldn't. How long after the Blackbird was designed and conceived did you know about it... SR-71B first flight in 64. introduced in 1966. Retired in 98. It would be foolish to retire a plane without the replacement at least in the works. Same goes for NASA's shuttle program. "flying bricks" are out of style. Not
to mention there is money
TheA1l2e34x 2 months ago
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pipercub123456 1 month ago
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pipercub123456 2 months ago 11
@elkranch ..May thru Nov 2007 Marine Corps. Logist Base Barstow,CA the Defense Log. Ag. & A.F. Material Com. ordered the disposal of all existing materials associated with Senior Crown over 2 million pounds of related A-12 & SR-71 were demilled with ordered witnessed burial...the last NASA SR-71 went to the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo MI shipped by truck in 2003??what a waste to destroy all that Habu material,14 J58 engine 840+ tires etc...Peace
pipercub123456 2 months ago
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pipercub123456 2 months ago
there is only ONE manned aircraft if you want to call it that that is faster than the BIRB and that is the space shuttle.If we believe everything the DD puts out about the BirB we are in a world of hurt. I will bet my retirement check she still is flying ou just don't hear about it, their have been some modifications to it to enhance speed and recon.Iwould put her up against any thing that flies from any country.
sixnightsaweek 2 months ago
Keep thinking the SR-71 is through it does thing the Predaor can't do..and yes there is mach 5 drone and call it a gut feeling or maybe more but I think NK will be the first to find out I do agree thank you Kelly Johnson for designing such a bird. Oh would Russia back NK in a war. Not in my life time, China Maybe
sixnightsaweek 2 months ago
Keep thinking the SR-71 is through it does thing the Predaor can't do..and yes there is mach 5 drone and call it a gut feeling or maybe more but I think NK will be the first to find out I do agree thank you Kelly Johnson for designing such a bird
sixnightsaweek 2 months ago
Keep thinking the SR-71 is through
sixnightsaweek 2 months ago
Beautiful flying machine, thanks to the brilliancy of Kelly Johnson
jomerod 2 months ago
3/19/70 I was just going off and we got a red ball. We hit the air in 2 f-4s as we hit mach 2 the bird pass us likw we were parked. Ground radar had picked up something( we were never told), but our orders we to bring it nout of the sky, I saw it on my screen but we could overtake it and niether could the bird and he was at full afterburn. Til I die I will always wonder what we were chasing. My sons it is the truth.
sixnightsaweek 2 months ago
I would rather not see an invisiable nuke. They have said Oh the bird is retired, anyone want to make a bet on that. It still flies, but ask anyone in the defence depatment and they will lie like hell and say we have no use for it with out satalittes, I know withour going into details it fies. God I wish I could say the things that I know about the bird the way my luck runs the DD would be beating on my door I will say this Mach 3 is awalk it the park for the bird.
sixnightsaweek 2 months ago
This puppy still rocks. Built in the late sixties and can still out strip mach 3 with a radar profile that would match today's B1 or B2 or the fighter F-117. This was the bird that propelled the USSR to develop an anti air missile to catch up to this plane. What a provocation to start a cold war! I mean I would be afraid.
atomant451 2 months ago
This puppy still rocks. Built in the late sixties and can still out strip mach 3 with a radar profile that would match today's B1 or B2 or the fighter F-117.
atomant451 2 months ago
Any plane that shits its pants when sitting still, and sucks itself along happily at Mach 3 is awesome :D
evilcatpillow 2 months ago
the fucking thing is a rocket lol
mississippi789 2 months ago
Pretty damn cool for 1960s technology. Read the excellent book "Sled Driver" if you can find a copy (very rare). I've taken many photos of the 71 at the National Air and Space Museum at Dulles, Va. .
altooname 2 months ago
still the best looking plane ever
2222hornet 2 months ago
I can't remeber as it has been so long ago but we did have a Recon was similar to the Bird". and yes had and a couple of other countries have been trying to for years to construct a missle that will catch the bird, but at last count there just as bad as we are in finding enough money to design something that will even come close the catching it. So far advanced for it time. Know or have a real good idea how fast but we will leave that alone.
sixnightsaweek 2 months ago
@sixnightsaweek I think you are referring to to the U2, It was a high flying snooper and at the time, or at its onset, The USSR had no missile that could reach it. Technology caught up to the U2 and Fancis Gary Powers was shot down.
atomant451 2 months ago